Women’s groups, tech watchdogs and progressive activists are calling on Google and Apple to remove the apps.
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Fewer learners studying mathematics at school level threatens South Africa’s economic competitiveness.
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Investment is pouring into renewable energy, but grid expansion will determine whether momentum can be sustained.
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South Africa’s largest labour federation, Cosatu, will present its proposal to rescue state power company Eskom to senior members of government and the business community on Monday.
Bitcoin’s infrastructure is more centralised than ever before, raising alarms about the security and viability of what is championed as a decentralised network.
Eskom has warned South Africans to brace for more frequent power cuts as it halts the deferral of planned maintenance. The rand weakened as a result.
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South Africa has no fiscal space left and must implement strong budget consolidation and state-owned company reforms to ensure its debt sustainability, the International Monetary Fund said.
Eskom will resume cutting 2GW from the South African grid at 9am on Friday until 6am on Monday due to a shortage of generation capacity and depleted emergency resources.
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Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y Lee was called for questioning by South Korea’s special prosecutors over allegations that the country’s biggest conglomerate paid bribes to gain support for a merger of affiliates. Special prosecutors
Samsung Group is getting pulled deeper into the scandal engulfing Korea’s president, with prosecutors homing in on whether an US$830 000 horse and millions in other payments were made to smooth succession at the top of the country’s
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is among six directors who plan to leave the board of the investment company that will be left after the closing of the proposed sale of Yahoo’s main Internet properties to Verizon Communications. The new company, a shareholder
Uber Technologies is hoping to win brownie points with some cities by opening up a small sample of its ridership data. The San Francisco ride-hailing company introduced a traffic dashboard called Uber Movement, saying the tool
